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The relationship between advisers and advisees is a crucial one, but the two often have different expectations. A graduate dean has a way to improve communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the flaws of the LNU-MSU College of International Business in Dalian in Liaoning Sheng, China, a collaboration between Missouri State University and Liaoning Normal University. Critics complain that the academic program is flawed, facilities are poor, administrators are unresponsive to their concerns, student cheating is rampant, and few of the instructors hold advanced degrees. Former LNU-MSU professor Yadira Calderon claims that LNU-MSU is not an American university, but a Chinese program with the beginning touches of American university mentality. Former history instructor Richard Stecz notes that about half of the student population are not language-qualified to benefit from the program. The problems caused by the language barriers are also noted.

This article focuses on how Broward County, Florida school leaders have built an enterprise-level network at a reasonable cost to stakeholders. Allegedly, the school leaders are building a state-of-the-art information technology infrastructure that is redefining the notion of what is possible in education. Due to its information technology systems, Broward County is allegedly able to provide online, on-demand staff development courses for its 15,000 teachers, a complete virtual high school for 200 full-time students, videoconferencing and video streaming in many classrooms, online test preparation and remedial instruction, and a host of other opportunities for staff and students that break down the barriers of the traditional school calendar. At the core of the infrastructure is a network operation center (NOC). From the NOC, district officials can monitor the status and performance of all the thousands of routers, switches, appliances, and even applications on the network, live and in real time. District technology staff receive a report before school starts each day, outlining which devices are not working, so they can correct problems before teachers encounter them in the classroom. INSET: NOC opens doors for students, staff.

In this article the author presents problems that exist in web-based instruction and suggests technological sources that could provide solutions. She advises teachers to use blogs, discussion boards, and online social networks to facilitate communication, presents cloud computing as a way to avoid losing data, and suggests collaboration among faculty as a way to improve online courses. Other technologies discussed include smartphones and other mobile communication devices, three-dimensional learning environments such as the one found in the virtual reality software Second Life, and instructor-designed web portals.

The article discusses how several college presidents communicate to their staff during the global financial crisis. The difficulty of creating a message around job uncertainty especially when an economic recovery was uncertain is explored. E. Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University avoided a felling of helplessness and hysteria by stressing the opportunities the financial crisis presented. Other communication suggestions included consistency, not understating the problem, communicate what is known, and make the budget understandable.

Universities have made headway caring for and graduating students from low-income backgrounds. The new coronavirus makes the climb much steeper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a look at how university students do not check their school e-mail accounts regularly. College officials in the United States find that a growing number of students are missing important messages about deadlines, class cancellations, and events. According to the article, institutions are beginning to try new ways of communicating, including MySpace and text messaging. Mentioned is Harcum College student Maurice Johnson, who finds campus e-mail frustrating. The article includes quotes from Brian Niles, chief executive officer of TargetX, a company that helps colleges use technology to recruit new students.

It has become the essential means of academic communication. A less-vibrant academic culture is the result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses how the administration of Michigan State University (MSU) to address the high volume of emails sent by the school to students. It details a communication project designed to identify the most effective way to contact students, especially first-year college students, that resulted in emails sent with greater clarity and more concise meaning.

The downfall of USC's president seemed sudden, but a campus culture shaped by poor top-down communication and a lack of trust inexorably led to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on how Michigan State University has improved communication with students by standardizing emails, revising the process of putting classes on hold, and centralizing scholarships.

The article addresses the importance of tone and volume of voice and clarity in the imparting of information in the higher education classroom. The author, a professor of English at a U.S. college, notes that the structure of the English language often leaves important information at the end of a sentence, so it is important to maintain a consistent voice level from beginning to end of sentences. He likens a professor's lectures to a performance calling for voice, gesture, and movement to support student attentiveness. He offers guidelines for self-examination of one's communication techniques and recommends starting improvement by concentrating on short portions of a lecture and building gradually from there.

The author notes the success of blogs as a communication medium and the job opportunities they have created. With previous classes of graduate students, blog posting was a success. But with the two classes she writes about, it did not work at all. Students were bogged down by her required postings, and she acknowledges that she got caught up in blogs' potential as a community-building device. Her advice for using blogs as part of a college course is to keep a blog yourself, recognize individual learning styles, encourage bloggers to produce more than text, recognize the nature of the beast, don't forget the old technologies, and don't be afraid to modify your approach.

THe article focuses on the educational publishing practice of maintaining diversity quotas in textbook images. Angela Coppola, a photographer for Houghton Mifflin, discusses the company's practice of hiring able-bodied children to pose as though they were disabled. It is suggested that publishers distort reality in an attempt to be politically correct in order to gain state sales contracts.

Addresses the need for sincerity in communicating with professors. Response of students to teachers; Information on how different animals communicate; Background on the handicap principle on communication by Israeli zoologist Amotz Zahavi.

The article reports on the federal grant awarded to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for the expansion of high-speed broadband and wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi) access to student in classroom.

Reports on the lack of collaboration among professors and administrators in universities in the U.S. resulting from the failure of colleges to take pressing academic problems in the 1980s. Lack of ways for professors and administrators to work together; Aspects of college governance and administration; Need for improvements in undergraduate education and in creating a curriculum and environment that are supportive of students from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

The article reports on the expansion of efforts to use television and other communications media to provide higher education in the U.S. as the 1980-1981 academic year starts. Students' interest in courses related to communication increased rapidly due to the use of communication satellites and the exploration of new academic areas by colleges and universities. An example is the offering of courses for undergraduate degrees via television by the National University Consortium for Telecommunications in Education.

The authors reflect on a phenomenon referred to as "summer melt" by college admissions officers in which high school graduates are accepted in higher education institutions but fail to enroll. Suggestions on how to help such students who do not matriculate are provided, covering topic such as outreach programs, task reminders, and communication from college advisors.

The article reports on the unruffled state of American University (AU) Hillel in Maryland in the midst of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) on campus in February 2014. Positive pro-Israel events are reportedly continuing unchanged, with most students going about their daily routine. The article notes that the school considers talking to the students as more important than responding to a hateful campaign.

The article discusses an educational framework used in freshman-level composition courses at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) which utilizes small discussion groups to prepare students for writing assignments. Noted goals of the approach include increasing the academic achievement of students, improving contact among students and instructors, and promoting more student-to-student discussions. Opinions from students and professors are also included.

The article discusses the practice by some professors in online courses of taking part in student email discussions through use of a fake persona. Responses by students and professors when finding out about the practice range from shock and feelings of violation to indifference. Barbara Christe, an associate professor of biomedical-engineering at Indiana University-Perdue University at Indianapolis, engages in the practice and defends it as ethical. She sees it as a way of keeping in touch with the tone of discussions and keeping informed about student frustrations so she can address them. Another professor uses an alias to participate but identifies the alias openly as his own. He says students are better able to accept his comments as an alias.

The author addresses the effect of the economic recession on U.S. students' likelihood of staying in educational programs, providing suggestions to programs for maintaining enrollment. These include emphasizing the value of what students are learning, giving students time and attention from faculty advisers, and recognizing their achievements. He recommends using newsletters, email, the social networking website Twitter and local news media to raise awareness of the program and keep students engaged. He notes that several departments have begun using Twitter to notify of job openings, success stories and other developments. Focusing on the student's experience, applauding their efforts and nurturing their positive spirit is indicated to be most effective.

The article discusses the text messaging system Twitter and its usage at universities. The service allows students and professors to send short notes to cellphones and computers, a process called microblogging. It also allows messages to be posted for multiple users. Media professor David Parry suggested that the message service created a greater sense of community in the classroom and allows teachers to communicate with students. The educational technology company Blackboard has acquired the messaging company NTI Group to provide a similar messaging system to customers. Instructional technologist Laura J. Little notes that Twitter can make communication between teachers more efficient.

The article announces that Blackboard Inc. has purchases the NTI Group, which is the maker of Connect-Ed. The program is used by colleges as a means of emergency communication and allows users to send messages to cellular telephones, e-mail, and land line telephones. Colleges are interested in seeking such means of communication because it provides a rapid and sure way of communicating with students. A major catalyst for the need are events like the school shootings at Virginia and natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

An interview is presented with Robert E. Cernock, who is the chief information officer at Central Connecticut State University. Cernock discusses the importance of technical people having a communicative relationship with college administrators and that he sees his school as having a mission which all employees should be working to reach. When asked about how tech people are seen in private business versus education, Cernock says that he avoids technical jargon when speaking to administrators.

The article presents tips and advice for community college teachers who face classrooms with highly diverse student demographics and abilities. The importance of effective and dynamic teaching ability in community college work is stressed and twelve overarching guidelines are provided. Advice includes the moderation of expectations and the clear communication of those expectations to students, keeping in mind the amount of pressure put on community college students from outside sources, and the encouraging impartial feedback opportunities from students for mutual improvement.

The article discusses a panel of foundation leaders who discussed the relationships that are possible between foundations and colleges and how such groups choose which school will receive funding. One factor that foundations look for is if the school collaborates with other schools, if the school's goals are in line with the foundation's, and if schools truthfully assess the viability of their programs. Sonya E. Medina of the AT&T Foundation stressed that schools should communicate regularly with foundations. W. Robert Connor of the Teagle Foundation says that foundations with limited funding opportunities want the research that they fund to be transferable to other institutions.

The article highlights the difficulty experienced by the schools in the U.S. in adopting technologies that would positively impact communication in education. Quality education depends on parents and educators having instant access to the information and tools required to effectively teach students. However, that is not the case with the U.S. education system. Due to a lack of interoperability capabilities, education leaders cannot properly deploy educational technology. Most applications available for primary and secondary schools are closed systems, which is costly and insufficient.

Focuses on the market coverage of the Madrid, Spain-based online education company OffCampus Internet SL, which offers Spanish translation of English educational curricula.

Reports on the technological innovations in universities and colleges. Supply of alphanumeric pagers to the freshmen of Loyola Marymount University at California; Instant messaging as the best way to communicate; Views of Joseph A. Merante, associate vice president of the university; Provision of pagers and service by Motorola and Metrocall; Cost effectiveness.

Reveals that officials at the City of University of New York (CUNY) raised to 541 their count of the prospective graduates at the university's six communication colleges, which have passed the English proficiency test for graduation. Analysis of figure given; Estimated number of students at the University; What the university intends to offer; Comments from Anne A. Paolucci, chairman of the board of trustees Anne A. Paolucci.

The author comments on illiteracy among students in the U.S. The changing social patterns in reading, writing, recreation and forms of learning should be responded by accurately describing them as the emergence of new linguistic and social forms. The main reason for the illiteracy of students in the country is the shift of communication from printed word to images, making them prefer to look and listen rather than read.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "How Scholarly Communication Should Work in the 21st Century," which proposes a new scheme for the dissemination of scholarly research in the October 18, 1989 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "How Scholarly Communication Should Work in the 21st Century," in the October 18, 1989 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "How Scholarly Communication Should Work in the 21st Century," pertaining to proposals for an all-encompassing electronic Scholarly Communication System in the October 18, 1989 issue.

The article introduces various products related to educational development in the U.S. Placemats produced by the public services office are used to tell students whom to contact or help with specific problems at Bowling Green State University. The Mississippi State University had developed a brochure that will encourage students to make use if the center's resources. Calumet College offers reverse side of business cards with maps explaining how to get to the campus.

The article reports on developments concerning U.S. higher education as of August 3, 1988. Foreign-born teaching assistants at Syracuse University may be enrolled in a program aimed at improving their communication and speaking skills. Roger C. Shank, who wrote the book "The Creative Attitude: Learning to Ask and Answer the Right Questions" with the help of Peter G. Childers, asserts that academics can sometimes do as much to thwart innovations as large corporations and other institutions.

The article reports on the launch of a publication devoted solely to teaching by Virginia Commonwealth University in Virginia. The magazine will be sent to all members of the faculty and administrative staff, as well as to legislators and local businessmen. The publication is part of a campaign that demonstrates that the changed university still cares about teaching.

The article highlights the recommendations of EDUCOM President Kenneth M. King on how the computer consortium of nearly 500 colleges and universities can provide leadership in communication. The agenda proposed by King for the next decade was detailed in a paper to be distributed at the annual convention of EDUCOM in the upcoming week in Los Angeles, California.

This article reports that Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University communicated with potential contractors using the institution's computer network and extranet. Vendors received request for proposals on floppy disks and were invited to post their questions on the network, where they received answers from the university in minutes. The bids focused on a contract for a telephone system.

This article discusses developments in the U.S. higher education. A literacy program at Stanford University is giving Hispanic American food service employees and custodians time off to learn English while their white supervisors get the opportunity to learn Spanish. Oberlin College's Nord Faculty Fellowships let the institution recruit faculty members with additional employee fringe benefits and salaries at a rate higher than the average Oberlin salary.

This article presents a list of recently published books and papers. These include "The Academic Department or Division Chairman: A Complex Role," edited by James Brann and Thomas A. Emmet, "The Campus and the City: Maximizing Assets and Reducing Liabilities," by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and "The Contributions of Business Management to Higher Education Management," by the Academy for Educational Development.